"A Man Walks Into An Intrinsic Field" lyrics - TRENT REZNOR & ATTICUS ROSS

[Narrator]
From humble beginnings fraught with persecution in Nazi Germany
To the shores of New York
One small boy in a huddled mass, yearning to breathe free
Jon Osterman transcended pain, suffering, and even death itself to create a life the likes of which history has never seen
To some, the immigrant son of a poor clockmaker was the fulfillment of the American dream
To others, the world's first superman was a toxic nightmare
Jon Osterman stepped into an intrinsic field chamber to recover his girlfriend's watch
But what emerged was an immortal god, impervious to the passage of time
This victim of an atomic mishap
Would forever alter the history of humankind
By developing miraculous new wonders
And then, Vietnam
Was he the liberating hero who single-handedly ended the war and delivered his country its 51st state?
Or was he the cold blue conqueror who decimated an entire way of life?
And so, like the Vietcong he vanquished a decade earlier, he retreated
For the next 10 hours, we'll explore the legacy of this literally self-made man in hopes of understanding why he was here, and why he left